Nine years ago, as a young tech reporter at Time Magazine, I co-wrote a buyer’s guide with the latest and greatest gear known to man. Today, it sounds ridiculous. • Creative’s $500 Nomad Jukebox (pictured above), was not only “sleek”—at least when compared to a CD Walkman—but “can hold as much music…

I wonder how many times Steve Ballmer laughed about the iPhone after pooping all over it in this 2007 interview. My guess: Not many. Don’t worry Steve, here’s the rest of the top 5 assclowns who dug their own grave:

Hookay. So, you think that this M3 sub-machine gun—with a shoot-first-and-ask-later curved barrel—is a really stupid, really dumb invention, right? I don’t blame you. But, trust me, you don’t know what really stupid, really dumb inventions are. Yet. I just saw a selection of 30 dumb inventions…

Anna Jane Grossman is the author of Obsolete: An Encyclopedia of Once-Common Things Passing Us By . She has compiled a special short list for Gizmodo: Four old gadgets we love and we’ll really miss, and four we’re glad are gone: Technology is all about what’s new and what’s next—today’s…

1979 was the beginning of Lego as we know it today, the year when they took over the world, the year of the Galaxy Explorer. I photographed all the classic sets in my Lego trip . Here’s the never-released gallery: The Lego bricks were invented a lot earlier, but 1979 was the year of Legoland …

Even back then, there were computers for people who couldn’t afford the more expensive stuff. Take this Tandy, which costs little more than a upgraded Netbook today. From Core Memory , photographed by Mark Richards and written by John Alderman. TRS-80 Model 1 (and Model 100) Year created: 1977 Creator: Tandy Corporation Cost: $…

In his third guest installment, the illustrious tech writer Steven Levy explains what it’s like to play arcade Space Invaders while totally shitfaced. When game historians recall the late ’70s wave of video arcade games, they will correctly identify the major time-wasters, which include Asteroids, Breakout, Missile Defense…

In his third guest installment, the illustrious tech writer Steven Levy explains what it’s like to play arcade Space Invaders while totally shitfaced. When game historians recall the late ’70s wave of video arcade games, they will correctly identify the major time-wasters, which include Asteroids, Breakout, Missile Defense Command and Space Invaders. …

Often it’s an artist’s second book or album that draws the public’s attention—so too with Apple’s number 2, whose story is excerpted here from Core Memory , photographed by Mark Richards and written by John Alderman. Name: Apple II Year created: 1977 Creator: Apple Computer , Inc. Cost: $1,298 with 4KB of RAM; $2,638 with 48KB of RAM…

Sony introduced the Walkman in 1979, and I got mine a year later. The Walkman boosted the profile of audio cassettes, which had been challenging LPs and 8-Tracks as a music medium. They soon dominated the music scene. A $185 TSC-300 I bought from J&R, my Walkman was also a stereo recorder. (Note…